scholarly journals Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Author(s):  
Abu Faisal
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government

Stanley WOLPERT, Jinnah of Pakistan. Published by OxfordUniversity Press, 1984. $24.95. PP 421.Sharif-AL-MUJAHID, Jinnuh-Studies in Interpretation, Publishedby Quaid-i-Azam Academy, Karachi 1981. $20.00. PP 806.Reviewed by: Abu FaisalFew individuals significantly altered the course of history. Fewer stillmodified the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited withcreating a nation-State. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. It isindeed surprising that a leader of such stature and achievement shouldhave received such scant attention from the historians and biographers.Both Gandhi and Jinnah were contemporary leaders of the Indian Subcontinentand while hosts of books have been written on Gandhi, evenmovies have been made (“9 hours to Rama”and “Gandhi”), there has beenvery little literature on Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan. Although threevery little literature on Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan. Although therehave been a few attempts at sketching a biography of Quaid-i-Azam-asJinnah is called by his grateful nation-by some Indian and Pakistaniwriters, there has been hardly any authoritative or sustained study onJinnah, his role in the Pakistan Movement and how it affected thepolitical future and geography of the entire Sub-Continent. HectorBolitho was commissioned by the Government of Pakistan in the early1950s to write a biography of the Quaid-“Jinnah, creator of Pakistan”,but it failed to evoke any excitement or even meet the standards of abiography. It is exactly after 30 years after Hector Bolitho’s publicationthat an attempt has been made by Stanley Wolpert, a professor of historyat UCLA to reconstruct a chronicle of this pivotal figure in the Indianpolitics during the turbulent decades that led to the creation of Pakistan.Wolpert is an old and respected expert on South Asia and has writtenextensively on the politics of the Sub-Continent. He brings this intimateknowledge and insight of the region to bear upon this excellent ...

Book Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Zoltán Ádám ◽  
László Csaba ◽  
András Bakács ◽  
Zoltán Pogátsa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

István Csillag - Péter Mihályi: Kettős kötés: A stabilizáció és a reformok 18 hónapja [Double Bandage: The 18 Months of Stabilisation and Reforms] (Budapest: Globális Tudás Alapítvány, 2006, 144 pp.) Reviewed by Zoltán Ádám; Marco Buti - Daniele Franco: Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union. Theory, Evidence and Institutions (Cheltenham/UK - Northampton/MA/USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2005, 320 pp.) Reviewed by László Csaba; Piotr Jaworski - Tomasz Mickiewicz (eds): Polish EU Accession in Comparative Perspective: Macroeconomics, Finance and the Government (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London, 2006, 171 pp.) Reviewed by András Bakács; Is FDI Based R&D Really Growing in Developing Countries? The World Investment Report 2005. Reviewed by Zoltán Pogátsa

scholarly journals India and overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946–1965: Experiments in post-imperial sovereignty

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Raphaëlle Khan ◽  
Taylor C. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract Despite the existence of a large Indian diaspora, there has been relatively little scholarly attention paid to India's relations with overseas Indians after its independence in 1947. The common narrative is that India abruptly cut ties with overseas Indians at independence, as it adhered to territorially based understandings of sovereignty and citizenship. Re-examining India's relations with Indian communities in Ceylon and Burma between the 1940s and the 1960s, this article demonstrates that, despite its rhetoric, independent India did not renounce responsibility for its diaspora. Instead, because of pre-existing social connections that spanned the former British empire, the Government of India faced regular demands to assist overseas Indians, and it responded on several fronts. To understand this continued engagement with overseas Indians, this article introduces the idea of ‘post-imperial sovereignty'. This type of sovereignty was layered, as imperial sovereignty had been, but was also concerned with advancing norms designed to protect minority communities across the world. India’s strategy to argue for these norms was simultaneously multilateral, regional, and bilateral. It sought to use the United Nations, the Commonwealth, and the 1947 Asian Relations Conference to secure rights for overseas Indians. As those attempts failed, India negotiated claims for citizenship with governments in Burma and Ceylon, and shaped the institutions and language through which Indians voiced demands for their rights in these countries. Indian expressions of sovereignty beyond the space of the nation-state, therefore, impacted on practices of citizenship, even during the process of de-recognition in Asia.

The politics of capital flight: exit and exchange rates in Latin America

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Crystal
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Capital Flight ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The capacity to transfer wealth abroad had long served wealth-holders as a potent restraint on state encroachment. The creation of movable wealth, Montesqueau wrote in the eighteenth century, meant that ‘rulers have been compelled to govern with greater wisdom than they themselves might have intended’. In the years since then, new technology and increasing interdependence have greatly magnified this capability; one recent book argues that the increased mobility of capital and growing integration of economies means that all governments ‘have lost the vestiges of unchecked economic sovereignty’ and that they ‘must concede to the implied threats of quicksilver capital’ When enormous quantities of wealth travel across the world with a single tap of a computer key, a country risks paying heavy costs if it adopts the wrong policies. So if the nation-state is not yet dead, it appears to be severely weakened in its ability to pursue measures at odds with the wishes of mobile-asset holders

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-786
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
London School ◽  
New Era ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Institute

Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University reviews “The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity” by Nicholas Stern,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Considers how to create a global deal to take action to reduce the impact and damage of climate change in the world. Discusses why there is a problem and how we can deal with it; the dangers; how emissions can be reduced, and at what cost; adapting to climate change; ethics, discounting, and the case for action; policies to reduce emissions; individuals, firms, communities--the power of example; the structure of a global deal; building and sustaining action; and a planet in peril. Stern is IG Patel Chair in Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics. Bibliography; index.”

scholarly journals Sources of Nepali Army’s military effectiveness during the Anglo-Nepal War

Unity Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 114-119
Author(s):  
Phanindra Subba
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Effective Resistance ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Military Effectiveness ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Institutional Stability ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Military

Military effectiveness is the process by which the military converts available material and political resources into military power. The organizational revolution that took place in Europe during the period, 1500- 1700, multiplied the military effectiveness of the European states. This paper, however, aims to assess the military effectiveness of the Nepalese Army during the Anglo- Nepal War, 1814-16, in the context of the failure of many of the armies of South Asia to mount an effective resistance against the colonial onslaught. Further, it explores the sources of the Nepali Army’s effectiveness in performance rooted in Prithvi Narayan Shah’s national army in its formative phase. His concept of the nation-state, the creation of a permanent army and his policy of not limiting recruitment and promotions to the natives of Gorkha laid the foundation for a loyal, competent multi–ethnic army. Moreover, this paper states that the institutional stability provided by his successors during a period of political turbulence spared the army time to consolidate and pass its institutional memory to the following generation. War is a brutal business, and the military effectiveness of armies is tested in the battlefield in which weaknesses are severely punished after their exposures. Strong states fight to win, the weak to survive. The paper concludes that the Nepali Army proved its military effectiveness during the Anglo-Nepal War by ensuring Nepal’s continued survival as an independent, sovereign state ever.

scholarly journals Reviewing the global economy: the UN and Bretton Woods systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Oram
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Hybrid System ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Humankind has been searching for millennia for ways to govern itself at large scale and over great distances. Overwhelmingly, the dominant solution had been the creation of empires, defined as multi-ethnic or multinational states with political and/or military dominion over populations who are culturally and ethnically distinct from the ruling imperial ethnic group and its culture. In the modern Westphalian era of the past several centuries, a hybrid system of governance around the world emerged, comprising the nation state (in Europe and the Americas) and international empires (across Africa, Asia and Oceania).

Open data and the XML community

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Cagle
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Data Standards ◽  
Important Data ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Restful Services

The world of XML is changing. Large “super schemas” like OOXML, XBRL, NIEMs, HL7, and so on, push the limits of existing XML software, while also encouraging the creation of ecosystems built around them, in order to exploit the large quantities of important data now or soon to be available in these formats. Standardization around these formats is driven less by existing proprietary formats and less by industry consortia than by government adoption. The super schemas are often formulated less as definitions of single concrete vocabularies than as meta-definitions of families of vocabularies. The confluence of emerging Open Data standards, the government-as-database conjecture, and a shift towards RESTful services will serve to turbocharge the XML community.

scholarly journals Prospects for the Development of Cryptocurrency Regulation in Singapore

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Ju. Shabatuk
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Detailed Review ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government

In this article are discussed the main prospects of development of cryptocurrency in Singapore, as it is widespread and used all over the world. The article covers the main points for the regulation of the cryptocurrency. There is a wide range of cryptocurrency trading platforms, and most of them are located in different countries, which leads to significant differences in terms of regulation by the authorities and, accordingly, different rules for users and companies. Several exchanges allow trading derivatives. A more detailed review would give a correct impression of the current situation in the world in terms of regulation of cryptocurrencies and future trends. Cryptocurrencies continue their development; the number of users of cyber money is steadily growing. The popularity of bitcoin has generated the creation of other cryptocurrencies that are developing along with bitcoin, but their popularity and capabilities are much less. In some countries, including Russia, the government started warning people that investing in “cash” equivalents could lead to losses in case if there is a collapse of cryptocurrency (bitcoin).

A New Digital Service Tax for the Transformation of the Taxation Architecture in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Deniz Şahin Duran
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Economic Program ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government

A series of necessary structural transformation has started to be implemented in Turkey with the new economic program described under the heading of “New Economy Program: Structural Transformation Steps 2019.” In the field of tax transformation of these structural transformation steps, some studies have been carried out towards the creation of “New Tax Architecture.” Within the scope of these studies, a new tax application under the name of “digital service tax” is designed. In fact, this step taken by the government of Turkey for the taxation of digital services is parallel to the developments in the world. In this study, for the better understanding of the necessity/importance of digital service tax and what kind of tax application is it, digital service tax planned to be implemented in Turkey is evaluated with its all aspects and in line with the developments in the world.

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